Positive stories of breastfeeding and sleep

[LouMoo13]

Please share positive experiences of breastfed babies sleeping well at night. We're only 3 weeks at the moment and waking every 1-2 hours but my DD never improved (if anything got worse...) and I'm dreading that happening again.

Please keep me sane by sharing any experiences of breastfed babies sleeping better from 6 weeks etc...

Hi OP, my breastfed baby started sleeping up to 8 hour stretches from about 7 weeks and by about 3 months was pretty much sleeping 10/11 hours. (I’d do a dream feed when I went to bed which he stayed asleep through). At about 5 months he went back to one or two feeds a night which I assume was sleep regression, and now he’s back to pretty much sleeping through. At nearly 7 months he’s still exclusively breastfed and I’ve never expressed (he’s started weaning onto food this month too). We do a mix of co-sleeping and him sleeping in his crib and neither seems to affect how often he wants a feed. Hopefully this gives you hope!

Hey OP not sure if its as helpful as the pp but my Bf DD started sleeping until 2am and then straight back down after a feed until 7 from around 7 weeks. This mostly went on until she was 8 months and she started sleeping through.
In case its helpful my DS was ff and was awake a lot more at night.

I can help, sort of. DD slept 12 hours a night from 6 weeks to 16 weeks. After that was a slightly different story I won’t go into but fx for you.

My LO is nearly a year now, still EBF and he’s a good sleeper. Still dream feeds but it’s more a comfort thing as we cosleep. He’s never really woken often past the early days when they all do because of their tiny tummies.

This is great, thank you so much! My DD woke every half hour (no exaggeration) until 6 months. Trying to tell myself that was just her and not a BF thing.

You've all given me hope!

Is it easier to sleep train adults rather than the baby? If you have a DH, he brings baby to you for a feed, then you sleep and DH puts baby to bed and puts the washing machine on?

@OneEpisode I don't want to sleep train, I just wanted to reassure myself that not all breastfed babies are like my sleep thief of a DD